I’m no expert with Linux but I’m trying hard to improve my knowledge, I recently ran through some great CentOS videos on Pluralsight and after that tried to install Guacamole which is a clientless remote desktop gateway. The long and the short of it is I didn’t get it fully working but really enjoyed the process.

Anyhow as I mentioned in a previous post, I decided to install Plex on a Ubuntu server as I think my problem with Linux is the lack of visual prompts i.e. If I can see or draw something then I often understand the process better.

So after my initial vmware issues, I downloaded and installed Ubuntu and installed VMware tools:

Open the VMware Tools CD mounted on the Ubuntu desktop.Right-click the file name that is similar to VMwareTools.x.x.x-xxxx.tar.gz, click Extract to, and select Ubuntu Desktop to save the extracted contents.

The vmware-tools-distrib folder is extracted to the Ubuntu Desktop.To install VMware Tools in Ubuntu:Open a Terminal window. For more information.In the Terminal, run this command to navigate to the vmware-tools-distrib folder:

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cd Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib

Run this command to install VMware Tools:

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sudo./vmware-install.pl-d

Note: The -d switch assumes that you want to accept the defaults. If you do not use -d, press Return to accept the defaults or supply your own answers.

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